WASHINGTON: One individual was killed and 9 harm in a taking pictures a number of blocks away from the place hundreds had been within the streets for a New Yr’s Eve get together in downtown Cellular, Alabama, police mentioned.
TV information footage confirmed law enforcement officials working and on horseback dashing to the realm the place the taking pictures befell about 45 minutes earlier than midnight Saturday.
Neither the identify of the individual killed nor the situations of the 9 individuals taken to the hospital have been launched by police.
The taking pictures occurred a number of blocks away from the principle stage for the Moon Pie Over Cellular pageant. The occasion continued on with fireworks and a moon pie dropping from a downtown constructing at midnight to mark the beginning of 2023.
The shooter and the individual killed appeared to know one another, Cellular Police Chief Paul Prine advised reporters close to the scene.
“It will give some consolation to all of us downtown that this was not only a random taking pictures,” Prine mentioned.